Having used the Supreme Court to seize the homes of the people in Connecticut and give the homes to a big pharmaceutical company for free, the city of New London is now suing all the homeowners for five years back rent on their own properties. In many cases the back rent of up to half a million dollars is more than the amount the city is offering for the houses, which were appraised according to 2000 values, before the housing boom took place.

All perfectly legal and looks like the city will win this one:

http://fairfieldweekly.com/gbase/News/content?oid=oid:119000

Damn! this is a repost!

http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?off.9.187052.8

moderators - delete this thread!!

(And please start using better subject titles for these threads folks)

Sorry - it's muppet. He's incapable of posting anything which could possibly indicate the actual content of the post.

Philo

Horrific.

Pathetic.

Wait -- muppet is allowed to change his name now? When did this happen?

Um. Philo was telling the OP that muppet is incapable of producing a thread with a relevent subject line.

Who needs relevant subject lines? Not me!

Most of us know that by now and can accommodate the gap. For the rest, if you don't want to know, don't jump - you may be able to skate over the mess.

http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=32011&dcn=todaysnews

Etc, etc. Unfortunately the puke is real and present. Go look how SCOTUS has failed you folks (I reside elsewhere) but our vey own little guvmint is always on the scrounge for new ideas.

Eeeew.

There was a sub base in New London as well? How do these stories fit together? Was it the loss of the base that caused them to go beserk in looking for new sources of tax revenue.

Sub bases have *very* nasty chemical byproducts. I bet cancer rates are high there.

Rich -

That's probably exactly right.

There are CONSTANT news stories in the paper and on local news right now about the poor Groton Sub Base being closed and how it's going to destroy the shoreline economy and boo hoo hoo and they're appealing the decision to close it and cry cry cry.

I can't wait until it's gone. Nobody cried or ranted or protested in support when the insurance companies fucked over 50,000 or so employees in one summer with massive stockholder-appeasing layoffs.

If I were being treated like these home owners, I think I would just sit back and think about other viewpoints on the matter.

And then after a refreshing cup of tea and a refresher course on chemistry, I would drive my rental truck full of explosives downtown.

No kidding flash.

The problem with closing sub bases is that there are critical welding skills used in making submarines and little else. Once those workers get laid off, those skills are gone for good, which will limit future submarine production.

Also, it continues the recent practice of spending all discretionary Federal money on the south. The submarine bases in South Carolina and Georgia are in the worst strategic locations possible for submarine basing.

Yeah, but how do those states vote, traditionally?